= Louvain method
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The Louvain method is a popular algorithm used for community detection in large networks. It is named after the university town of Louvain in Belgium, where the method was developed. The primary goal of the Louvain method is to identify clusters or communities within a graph, where nodes are more densely connected among themselves than with nodes outside the community. The algorithm operates on the principle of optimizing modularity, which is a measure of the quality of the partitioning of the network into communities.
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